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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Curves II (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G9
Location: My daughter's East Village apartment in NYC
Date: Mar 29, 2008
Aperture: F/5
ISO: 800
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Abstract, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Mar 30, 2008

 The violin was heavily backlit with natural window light that caused some burn out in the highlights. This was fixed using duplicated layers of wood grain transparently laid over the burnouts to retain some of the highlights.

The violin was on a handful of white laser paper, which left out of focus shadow lines that were distracting, so the entire image was heavily Gaussian blurred and used under the violin as the background.

I merged the layers, did a Lens Blur and added film grain and after laboring over position, rotated the image 180 degrees.

Finally, I created an edge mask from the Green Channel (Bruce Frasier was brilliant!) and used it as a layer mask with a contrast adjustment layer using Curves.

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Place: 168 out of 206
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/05/2008 06:38:26 PM
I would like to see a little more of this in focus, it was a good subject for the challenge.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/02/2008 06:16:42 AM
You can almost hear the music.


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